Mmegi sent Kobotwe a questionnaire three weeks ago.Bringing DWNP on record about the ongoing smuggling, exportation and importation of predators between Botswana and South Africa, is akin to trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. Mmegi could not get any response from the department about individuals who have licences to import, export and keep lions and cheetahs in their game farms. Mmegi investigations have turned up a report by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which suggests that live lions legally exported from Botswana to South Africa between 2000 and 2011 totaled 45, 19 by 2001 and 27 in 2011. Live lions imported from South Africa to Botswana totaled 63 within the same period with 2008 seeing 29 lions imported.